wisdom literature

The verse also had parallels in the wisdom literature of the period.

The most famous examples of wisdom literature are found in the Bible.

We don't have enough of that delicate wisdom literature: How to be honorable in a society.

Proverbs is part of what we call Wisdom literature.

Fox has been described as a "highly regarded authority on biblical wisdom literature."

Wisdom literature tells the reader has about how nature is made, and what reality is.

This language stock is becoming for us what the Wisdom literature was in the Bible.

Wisdom literature was not confined to the Bible, or to Israel.

It belongs to the broad family of wisdom literature, which expresses general truths about the world.

Her current research is focused on the configuration of desire in Israelite wisdom literature.

The Alexander romance also had an important influence on Arabic wisdom literature.

His primary research then shifted to the Psalter and Wisdom literature.

Yet human suffering can be made bearable: "Wisdom literature teaches us to accept natural limits."

In the wisdom literature there is an address to every human being about how right conduct is related to the ultimate constitution of things.

Wisdom literature, according to Whybray, was therefore the product of literary-minded individuals among the intellectuals.

He showed that sayings attributed to Jesus could be found in Jewish wisdom literature.

He is among the first writing prophets, and the last chapter of Hosea has a format similar to wisdom literature.

And so the wisdom literature applies the Word of God to many of the big questions which plague us in life.

We refer to these works as "Wisdom Literature".

Later scholars and philosophers also would embody concepts from the wisdom literature, or Sebayt.

An expert in wisdom literature, Seow has written widely in the field of biblical studies.

Wisdom literature is a genre of literature that was common in the ancient Near East.

It has parallels with biblical wisdom literature.

If we study religious, philosophical and wisdom literature of every culture that has ever existed we could distill this same essence.

In the Bible these books are classified as "Wisdom Literature":